Posts by savithny

My kids do their homework as soon as they get home -- most of it, anyway.  If there's a big project or something they need help with, it can be put off until later.   I find that if I allow any screen time before...

Quote: Originally Posted by DoubleDouble  It's not like you are dissecting dead wild hyenas in that sink. Where would the germs come from? What is that baby poo going to have, Ebola virus?...

While vinegar has been found to reduce bacteria counts on hard surfaces, it is not as effective as bleach.   Further, the studies that found vinegar to be effective used it full-strength and lots of it -- I'm not convinced that a...

My kids like D'Aulaire's Greek Myths (we have both Greek and Norse).   Another recommendation:  Rosemary Sutcliff (a British writer who did a lot of historical fiction for kids, including "The Eagle of the Ninth" and its...

Quote: Originally Posted by foreverinbluejeans    6. Nipple pain is not always due to a bad latch. Books and web sites have lists of things that can cause nipple pain. Wet nursing pads were a problem for...

#6 makes me absolutely livid, because it gets thrown around by EVERYONE.   "IF it hurts, you're doing it wrong."   Well, no.  Especially at the beginning, it can hurt even if your'e doing everything right.  ...

Yes, it sounds like a night terror.   My older child (now 11) did that sometimes, starting around that age.   It's an issue of arousal from sleep -- it's a sleep disorder really, in which they "come to the surface"...

By 5, the norm was for kids to get dropped off and parents to leave them.  It probably helps that we're a relatively small town and we've never been invited to a party more than a 5-7 minute drive away, so its not like we're...

Quote: Originally Posted by foreverinbluejeans  I am a MIL. Mothers tend to think of babies as their baby. In the ideal situation a baby is born in a supportive web of relationships. The grandmother relationship...

Chiming it to agree that sleep deprivation is dangerous, and the "8 hours of sleep" is NOT a myth.  It's well supported by multiple studies.    This article last year in the NYT really hit...